Need 6BRX loads using 90gr & 95gr Bergers

[racesnake]

Got a few boxes in a trade a while back. Do they shoot good and what loads are you guys using?

 

[NateG]

I've never shot the 95s, but the 90s are excellent. They don't have quite the wind-cheating ballistics of the 105-class, but they shoot very well. (Easy to get shooting, too)

I can't, however, remember (or find) the load I shot them with, though I think I used my 105 load, possibly bumped up a half grain or so. My thinking was that if I'm shooting the 90s rather than the 105s, I'm not particularly worried about wind drift (and I shoot known-distance, so I really don't care about the drop), so go easy on the brass. So, I was probably around 33grains of 203b (or the same of Re15).

I just found one load I used of 31 grains of 203b (*really* mild) that shot well. You can certainly work up a good bit beyond there--but I never tried much (if any) beyond the charge I was using for the 105s.

 

[racesnake]

My 6BRX likes the 105vlds jammed 0.010". Do you think the lighter ones need engaged, too?

 

[MarkS]

racesnake,

I shoot most bullets into the lands. You can bump your load by 1.0 gr from the 105 loads for starts.

Mark Schronce

 

[racesnake]

Thanks for the info fellows. I appreciate it.
Dave

 

[racesnake]

Made it to the range today. First crack-out of- the box I shot a 0.198" 5 shot group with the 90 gr vld's. I used the same amount of Varget and a 0.010" jam that I use for the 105gr vld's. The 90gr vld hunting bullets with the same load, etc., shot a 0.470" 5 shot group. I gotta find some 105 hybrids and see how they shoot. Can't seem to find them right now. Everybody is out of them.

 

[SDDasher]

Try Powder Valley, just ordered some from them yesterday.

 

[alf]

In my Dasher, I'm running 34.3 grains of Varget with moly plated 95 VLD's at 3060 in a 22" tube, in one of my coyote guns. It'll go 3200, but the accuracy node is at 3060, same as my 105's in the "big guns".

 

[racesnake]

The 90gr vld's that shot the 0.198" group are in front of 33.5gr of Varget. I didn't get to chrono the load but the same load using 105 vld's chronos a solid 3000fps. So, I'm assuming the 90gr's are running somewhere between 3000fps and 3100fps.